Mystic River: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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| Album: | Mystic River: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
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| Artist: | Clint Eastwood |
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| Label: | Warner Bros / Wea |
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He’s been an international movie star icon, successful producer, acclaimed director, and fervent jazz revivalist. But after years of cinemusic flirtations, Clint Eastwood finally adds “film scorer” to his already burgeoning resume. Those familiar with his jazz affections and a laconic keyboard approach that seems to echo his very acting style won’t be surprised by the elegantly moody “Main Title” he’s composed for this character-driven drama. But the autumnal, minimalist, and post-modern influenced orchestral cues (performed with sympathetic grace by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus) Eastwood offers elsewhere here are yet another forceful example of an artist who’s typically used his mainstream successes to leverage new creative challenges for himself. Kyle Eastwood (the film legend’s son) offers up a jazzy coda to his father’s bittersweet orchestral portrait with the playful, R&B bump of “Cosmo” and soulful “Black Emerald Blues.”—Jerry McCulley
Related works
Mystic River: A Novel
- 2002 Anthony-Novel winner
- 2002 Barry-Novel winner
- 2002 Macavity-Novel nominee
- 2001 Hammett nominee
- Score: 32.52
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened—something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay-demons that urge him to do horrific things.
When Jimmy’s daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into serious conflict with Jimmy. And then there is Dave, who came home covered in someone else’s blood the night Jimmy’s daughter died. While Sean attempts to use the law to return peace and order to the neighborhood, Jimmy finds his need for vengeance pushing him ever closer to a moral abyss from which he won’t be able to return.
A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love, loyalty, faith, and family.
Superior acting, writing, and direction are on impressive display in the critically acclaimed Mystic River, Clint Eastwood’s 24th directorial outing and one of the finest films of 2003. Sharply adapted by L.A. Confidential Oscar-winner Brian Helgeland from the novel by Dennis Lehane, this chilling mystery revolves around three boyhood friends in working-class Boston—played as adults by Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, and Kevin Bacon—drawn together by a crime from the past and a murder (of the Penn character’s 19-year-old daughter) in the present. These dual…
